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Tom Jones - Reload Audio CD

A fair review of the Tom Jones "Reload" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Tom Jones reviews here, or go back to the Tom Jones tabs.

Band: Tom Jones
Title: Reload
Rating:

Release Date: 1999-09-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Burning Down The House-With The Cardigans 2: Mama Told Me Not To Come-With Stereophonics 3: Are You Gonna Go My Way-With Robbie Williams 4: All Mine-With Divine Comedy 5: Sunny Afternoon-With Space 6: I'm Left You're Right She's Gone-With James Dean Bradfield 7: Sexbomb-With Mousse T 8: You Need Love Like I Do-With Heather Small 9: Looking Out My Window-With James Taylor Quartet 10: Sometimes We Cry-With Van Morrison 11: Lust For Life-With The Pretenders 12: Little Green Bag-With Barenaked Ladies 13: Ain't That A Lot Of Love-With Simply Red 14: She Drives Me Crazy-With Zucchero 15: Never Tear Us Apart-With Natalie Imbruglia 16: Baby It's Cold Outside-With Cerys From Catatonia 17: Motherless Child-With Portishead

Great CD ...but not readily available in the US
I liked "Are You Gonna Go My Way" better when Tom did it on the Jerky Boys Soundtrack rather than the duet he does on this one. I got this CD in 1999 but had to go to a shop that ordered imports in order to get it ! Worth the wait though ! It has alot of songs from alot of different genre's. "Sometimes We Cry" with Van Morrison is great pairing two great voices together. "Burning Down The House" is good but one of my favorites was "Mama Told Me Not To Come" with the Stereophonics. Overall it's great seeing Tom put a different twist on older classics !! I recommend it to everyone out there who's a TJ fan !.

full tracks
Burning Down The House (With The Cardigans)~~~2. 1. Mama Told Me Not To Come (With Stereophonics)~~~3. Are You Gonna Go My Way (With Robbie Williams)~~~4. All Mine (With The Divine Comedy)~~~5. Sunny Afternoon (With Space)~~~6. I'm Left You're Right She's Gone (With James Dean Bradfield)~~~7. Sexbomb (With Mousse T)~~~8. You Need Love Like I Do (With Heather Small)~~~9. Looking Out My Window (With James Taylor Quartet)~~~10. Sometimes We Cry (With Van Morrison)~~~11. Lust For Life (With The Pretenders)~~~12. Little Green Bag (With Barenaked Ladies)~~~13. Ain't That A Lot Of Love (With Simply Red)~~~14. She Drives Me Crazy (With Zucchero)~~~15. Never Tear Us Apart (With Natalie Imbruglia)~~~16. Baby It's Cold Outside (With Cerys Matthews)~~~17. Motherless Child (With Portishead.
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Great And Varied Collaborative Album
Not a single bad song on the album, but some definately take precedence over others. Each track on "Reload" pairs the legendary Tom Jones with a different collaborator on a different cover song, spanning a variety of styles from ballads to techno-ish dance type tracks to driving hard rock. Among the highlights are the lightening power rock track "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" with Robbie Williams; the honeymoon-ready and rhythmically-mesmerising "Sexbomb" with Mousse T. ; percussiony rocker "You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone" with James Dean Bradfield, the fast-paced "You Need Love Like I Do" with the unique, husky vocals of Heather Small; and the album's great opener, "Burnin' Down The House" with the Cardigans. And is it just me, or does anybody else out there think "Mama Told Me Not To Come" (with the Stereophonics) should be retroactively included on the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" soundtrack? And tying everything together, the inimitable soaring baritone vocals of Tom Jones himself.

One of the better albums of Jones's career; a solid nine out of ten. .

NOT JUST A SHLOCK ARTIST
he knew she liked elvis and other acts of that kind, so i did. here's MY experience with this album: the guy at the record shop told me: buy this for your old lady. i brought it home, she listened to it and every track she heard she said: aw i don't know, this isn't quite what i like. this isn't the tom jones i remember. and her fifteen-year-old daughter sitting beside her was going: oooh tom jones- cool. and every track she was listening to she was going, oooh i must have this -- so naturally she made about 15 copies for herself and all her friends. my old lady never warmed to the thing, and gave it back to me. i could never STAND tom jones, so i didn't listen to the record all that often, if at all. then i got mick jagger's "angel at the doorway", and i thought: what a let-down. tom jones did a better job than this. i mean, EVEN tom jones. so i picked the cd back out from the never-listen-to-this-****-bin i'd consigned it to and hey, bingo! it really gooo-roooved. i've been enjoying it tremendously ever since, i've got the whole thing inside my imac and come across it frequenly without ever pressing the "get rid of this"-button. mick jagger will have to try really hard to catch up! so if you guys in america haven't got this cd on the market as a regular day-to-day available everywhere item, boy, you're really missing out on something. it's the only one of its kind that i know that actually works, where a semi-past it male bullfrog type of singer gets a new lease of life through a cooperation with younger artists. the music, the arrangements, and the actual songs are great too, ranging from an obscure elvis track to gospel, from modern pop to frivolous tin pan alley. and it actually works, it's fun to listen to. i could never understand why frank zappa, of all people, the most exacting task-master of american pop, liked tom jones but here it's obvious: he's a tremendous musician and singer, not just a shlock artist!.

and they laughed at pat boone?
The hoary Welsh geezer warbler with gold medallions clanging off his hairy barrels and more socks in his drawers than his er. . drawers, makes a slight return for this oddity who's-who? collaboration collection of curious power-Vegas deconstructed mod-pop and rock hits. Folks like the Cardigans, Stereophonics and Van Morrison step in to help the dim man's Otis Redding crank up the testerone croak enunciation suitably for a few great squealing, squalling, cocks-out, huge-bollocked, grunting, sweat-stained and throbbing mucho-macho show tune duet covers. Rarely does Jonesy invigorate the songs of others (Are You Gonna Go My Way?, Burning Down the House, Sexbomb, Little Green Bag); rather, it's the generous miasma of straight-faced, carbon-dated braggadocio -�grunts, groans, whoos! hahs! -�tossed like croutons in his seizure salad of reanimated retirement home mojo histrionics that make this a hoot to hear. Like the social security sex monster on show here, Reload shakes and moans admirably top and bottom, but the midsection is a saggy mess of embarrassing dough (Sunny Afternoon, I'm Left You're Right, You Need Love Like I Do, Looking Out My Window). A simple work like Portishead's B-movie electronica hit All Mine completely sinks him (with cohorts Divine Comedy), though he and fellow antique Van Morrison fare no better with the jumbo leprechaun's Sometimes We Cry -�deconstructed here as a sniggly wad of boozey retro-cheese. But when it's bad, it's so bad it's a scream. Look no further than Grones' wagging, insipid and ultimately hilarious neuter of David Bowie and Iggy Pop's old glam/punk Lust For Life. Even Chrissie Hynde's cranky harp and hardened croak aren't strong enough to stifle Jone's straight-laced emasculation - or the resulting giggles. "Of course, I've had it in the ear before," he shudders, hips a jiggling and sock a wiggling. Thanks to Reload, you'll get it in the ear too, over and over again. What fun! Mum, if she isn't busy tossing her knickers at the CD player, will be proud.

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